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September 30, 2024, Adrian, Michigan – All are invited to mark Indigenous Peoples Day by attending a Teach-in focused on the Doctrine of Discovery from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday, October 14, 2024, in the Auditorium of Weber Retreat and Conference Center and live-streamed on our website

Mark Charles, a Native American activist, speaks on the continuing impact of the Doctrine of Discovery, a series of documents issued by popes in the 1400s, giving Christian European explorers a mandate to conquer in the name of their country any lands not inhabited by Christians. This encouraged European settlers to take away the land inhabited by the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.

Mark, the son of a Navajo father and a Dutch-American mother, is a public speaker, consultant, and author on Native American issues, the former pastor of the Christian Indian Center in Denver, and an independent candidate for U.S. President in 2020.

His talk is followed by a panel discussion by members of the People of the Four Winds of Lenawee County, a local group of Native Americans and allies.

The teach-in is sponsored by the Adrian Dominican Sisters Office of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation.

Weber Center is on the campus of the Adrian Dominican Sisters Motherhouse, Adrian, Michigan. On East Siena Heights Drive, turn into the driveway between Adrian Rea Literacy Center and the solar panel-covered carport. Follow the signs to Weber Center.
 


Older woman with white hair, red eyeglasses, and a blue blouse stands behind a lectern.

September 27, 2024, Winter Park, Florida – Members of the Haiti Ministry at St. Mary Margaret Catholic Parish in Winter Park, Florida, wrote a letter to the editor of The Orlando Sentinel and The Springfield (Ohio) News-Sun. In the letter, the committee notes their involvement for 18 years in partnership with parishes in Haiti, uplifting and empowering their communities. Noting that their brothers and sisters in Haiti “deserve our respect,” the committee writes, “It is heartbreaking to witness the recent attacks on the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, which were fueled by false claims and baseless accusations about their legal status.”

Sister Rosemary Finnegan, OP, (pictured above) is a long-time member of the parish’s Haitian Ministry.

Read the letter to the editor in The Orlando Sentinel 
 


 

 

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